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Coding standards have been a recurring topic during the JavaScript Weekly Chats, most recently in the December 4th, November 27th, July 31st, July 24th, and July 17th meetings. As a result of these conversations and in the observed emergence of patterns during the development of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for…

The second release candidate package for 5.0.2 is now available for testing. Please help test the release candidate version to ensure the version works as expected. After activating the WordPress BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are…

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This is the agenda for the weekly office hours meeting on  in #core-multisite. As mentioned in #core-multisite last week, it’s been a while since the last organized multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each…

Per 9 Projects for 2019, all widgets will be ported over to GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ blocks. I…

The release candidate package for 5.0.2 is now available for testing. Please help test the release candidate version to ensure the version works as expected. WordPress 5.0.2 will be released on December 19. It contains 26 core bug fixes, as well as the bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements,…

With 5.0 released to the world, attention is now placed on preparing the follow up minor releases. The first one, scheduled for December 19th, focuses on performance improvements — particularly around typing with many blocks present on the page — and bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are…

This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable…

Dev Chat Scheduling As many folks will be away over the Christmas/New Year period, the next few meetings will be as follows: December 19: Normal meeting. December 26: Normal meeting will not be happening. There are likely to be coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds…

5.0.1 was just released to fix several security bugs. The Security team tried very hard to mitigate all of the vulnerabilities without any back-compat breaks, but unfortunately there were a few cases where that was not possible. Security patches are backported to the 3.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the…